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“culatra” and “cultura” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#28,922
“culatra” frequency rank
#490
“cultura” frequency rank
29412
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature culatra cultura
Definition parte subsequente ao cano de uma arma de fogo conjunto de conhecimento adquirido; a instrução, o saber: uma sólida cultura

Letter map: culatra vs cultura

Shared letters muted; letters that set culatra and cultura apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. culatra (CVCVCCV) and cultura (CVCCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
culatra
7 ch
cultura

Corpus notes: culatra and cultura

culatra and cultura are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29412, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

culatra is recorded at frequency rank #28,922, classified as anoun. cultura is at rank #490, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 29412, this pair ranks #39,225 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of culatra vs cultura

Shared letters: aclrtu. Private to "culatra": -. Private to "cultura": -.

"culatra" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "cultura" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • culatra ← cculatra · cluatra · cualtra · cularta · culatar · culatrra · culattra · cullatra
  • cultura ← ccultura · clutura · culltura · cultrua · culttura · cultuar · culturra · culutra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "culatra" and "cultura" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "culatra" or "cultura"?
"cultura" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #490 in our Portuguese list, against #28,922 for "culatra". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "culatra" and "cultura". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "culatra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cultura" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #39,225 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "culatra" and "cultura" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cuatro vs culatra". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #39,225 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list